{"id":26466,"date":"2022-01-21T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:03:12","slug":"macau-to-resume-inbound-flights-from-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-resume-inbound-flights-from-monday","title":{"rendered":"Macau to resume inbound flights from Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a 14-day ban, all commercial passenger flights to Macau will resume from January 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Macau&#8217;s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced that the ban that prohibits the arrival of<strong> flights from outside China <\/strong>to Macau will be lifted from January 24. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/authorities-in-macau-halt-inbound-flights-for-14-days\">The ban<\/a>\u00a0had been taken as a Covid-19 countermeasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those aged 12 and above who want to enter Macau must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Stricter quarantine measures have been implemented for incoming passengers from destinations deemed \u201cvery high-risk\u201d in 22 countries\/regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before heading to Macau, travellers from these high-risk areas must present <strong>three negative Covid-19 nucleic acid test results<\/strong>\u00a0within five days and at least 24 hours apart.\u00a0They <strong>will be quarantined for 28 days<\/strong>\u00a0after arriving in Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau visitor arrivals up 30.7% in 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-30-7-in-2021\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/a>&nbsp;has reported that Macau&nbsp;<strong>received 7.971m tourists in 2021<\/strong>, up 30.7 per cent year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors increased to 1.6 days during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of overnight visitors in 2021 was close to 3.7 million, a year-on-year increase of 31 per cent. Official figures show that&nbsp;<strong>overnight visitors accounted for 48 per cent of total visitor arrivals<\/strong>. The number of visitors to Macau on the same day increased by 30.4 per cent to about 4.01 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>&nbsp;with Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 14-day ban, all commercial passenger flights to Macau will resume from January 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau will resume commercial passenger flights from outside China on January 24, lifting a Covid-19 related ban. Strict entry requirements, including full vaccination and extended quarantine for high-risk origins, remain in effect. This development follows a 30.7% increase in visitor arrivals to Macau in 2021, primarily driven by Mainland China.","focusai_entities":"Macau\u2019s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre, Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's concessionaires in Q1 and Q2 2022, considering the flight resumption and the continued stringent quarantine requirements for international visitors?"},{"label":"Operational Readiness","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their staffing, marketing, and amenity activation strategies to capitalize on the anticipated, albeit gradual, increase in international visitor arrivals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-26466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26473,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466\/revisions\/26473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}